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...also the honorary president of OXFAM, an international anti-poverty organization, said current levels of inequality may not be justifiable, even if the poor are getting richer along with the rich...
...unloved unit. And if markets regain their stratospheric heights, it's a safe bet bankers will make mergers popular again. That's despite evidence that linkups usually don't accomplish their goals. A 1999 study by KPMG International found that only 17% of mergers made shareholders richer, while 53% actually made things worse. Demergers, however, "really do unlock shareholder value," Kaplan insists...
...trade coffee often argue that by guaranteeing a wage floor of $1.26 per pound, market forces will not prevent oversupply. However, the current market is not free. Producers in poor countries do not benefit from the same government subsidies that American farmers do and are restricted from: emigrating to richer countries such as the U.S. While producers who can’t profit in one sector should be able to switch to another, coffee farmers are generally too poor to do so. (If they do switch, coca, a source of cocaine, is one of the most profitable crops to grow...
...album smoothly and gleefully from unrequited love odes (“Always On My Mind”) to breakup-makeup ballads (“All Over Again”) to the sing-along rocker “Anthem,” but no farther. With the exception of the richer, more imaginative musicality the band hints at with “Turn Smile Shift Repeat,”—the album’s best song—it’s all fun sugary stuff, easy to listen to but also easy to forget. Without the production...
Jack the butcher (Michael Caine) is dead. His three pals and his adopted son (beautifully played by Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings, Bob Hoskins and Ray Winstone) bibulously set forth to scatter his ashes in the sea. As they drive, flashbacks inform us of a life richer in complexity, coincidence and moral confusion than we might expect from a humble shopkeeper. Schepisi also wrote this patient adaptation of Graham Swift's Booker prizewinning novel, in which wry humor and even a certain sexiness break through the reserve of a rueful, realistic, but finally emotionally rewarding film. --By Richard Schickel